Television Should Be Prohibited to Children

Television should be prohibit to childrenTelevision as a media tool is popular around the world. With its popularity across all age groups comes the question of whether or not children should be prohibited from watching television. I believe that children should not be allowed to watch television for extended periods of time because it has many negative side effects. I will explain the three major negative effects—that is bad for children’s health like causing obesity, myopia and waste time in order to affect their study and less communication to the others—in this essay. It may be argued that allowing children to watch television may actually provide some cognitive benefits. There is no doubt that children can learn about knowledge of animals and plants from the nature shows, get the news about the world to open their eyesight on the evening news and made them relaxing from the funny shows or cartoon—of course, TV is a good educator and entertainment tool. However, compared to the undesirable influence to the children, the arguments cannot hold the water. The nature shows and cartoon programs, as known to us, are performed at fixed time that some children may not watch television on this period or they don’t like the program sometimes. What if they change the program with one full of violence or other inappropriate information? How sure we can be whether the violence would make a bad impression on their mind, or if they lean bad behaviors like drinking and smoking from the television? It is commanded, “The impact of TV violence may be immediately evident in the child's behavior or may surface years later” from children and violence. (2 002, No. 13). Children cannot tell the difference between incorrect things and have less control of them when learning from the television. Thus, it is dangerous to children to learn bad behaviors from the television because these behaviors may destroy their life. To watching television, they may even stay up, which children...

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